There's lots of room between the two extremes, of course. But during interviews, I often ask performers about their attitudes toward changing technology.

Caleb Followill, lead singer of Kings of Leon, had this to say on the subject before the band's Sept. 20 concert at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Pelham:

Q:You have access to computer technology that old-school bands did not, as well as YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and other ways of reaching listeners on the Web. How do you feel about that stuff?

A: Well, I’m actually not too computer savvy. I don’t really know how to work a lot of this stuff. But yeah, in today’s day and age, you kind of have to play the game. If that’s a way people are going to get to your music, well, of course we’re going to try to get our music out there.

But there's a lot of it that I dislike. I used to love when I would get off of school on Friday and run to the record store, and pick it up with my own hands and get home. For me, it was CDs. I’m not that old. But I’d bust it open, and I’d get all the lyrics out, and read along.

Now it’s just a click of a button. I think it’s lost a little bit of the romance. But who knows? Five years from now, we could be talking about some of the things that you just mentioned and they could be gone.

It has its upsides and, obviously, its downsides. It’s pretty rare to have an album come out nowadays that doesn’t get leaked a couple weeks early or something like that.

But all these kids nowadays know so much about the computers. Who knows? To them it could have the romance.

A: At this point, when we’re traveling, I’ll get my girlfriend’s iPod and listen to that. But for the most part, I’m really into vinyl. When I’m at home and I’m cooking a meal or something, I like to put on a record.

I know it’s cliche, but I think it sounds better, with the scratch. When I was younger, it was always a CD. And it took me 45 minutes to get the thing open. Once I got it open -- yeah, it was like an experience. And I had to go all the way to the record store to get it. And I had to save up my money to get it. The memories of that make the music I was listening to sound better to me.